The author Bruce Bawer, writing in The New York Times Book Review, said that Mr. Auchincloss had the bad luck to live "in a time when the protagonists of literary fiction tend to be middle- or lower-class".
"After Neon Genesis Evangelion, there was a time when the protagonist would refuse to pilot mecha.
The SNP's Westminster leader is the class act in PMQs at a time when the two main protagonists are struggling to cope with this most demanding of Westminster occasions.
As long as she keeps winning, it's going to be like a snowball effect". Evert said Seles is thriving at a time when many of her main protagonists are not--Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova and Jennifer Capriati.
However, including a protagonist who has agency in a time when women had none could have lead to some enlightening moments – without recognition, it's jarring.
In fact, contrary to Leff's assessment FitzRalph was one of the leading protagonists of the Oxford of his day and at a time when Oxford briefly eclipsed the University of Paris in importance.
House, the character, emerged at a time when television drama was just beginning to embrace the idea that a protagonist could be judged by the content of his flaws, as much as or more than his strengths.
There were once Indians, and then a time when they were gone, and then there came the present of the protagonist.
The series broke new ground in the genre, most obviously in the protagonist Mary's being a single, independent working woman at a time when female characters were defined as the wife, girlfriend, or widow of a male counterpart.
At a time when most humans have been shuttled away from Earth to inhabit a parallel planet called Icarus, protagonists Doug and Hilary live happily in Neo-London.
